It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Envy is littleness of soul.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.