The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Principle is a passion for truth.
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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