A wise traveler never despises his own country.
It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.