Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Little things are great to little men.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.