The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

Books wind into the heart.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.