Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.