Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

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

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.