The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.