The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.