You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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- The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
- Gallantry to women — the sure road to their favor — is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
- I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
- If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
- If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will –the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.
- It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.