"I know nothing which exercises a more powerful influence upon my heart than an act of courage, performed at an opport…"

"I can understand how it is that the inhabitants of cities, who see nothing but walls, streets and crimes, have so lit…"

"I have learned to doubt whether a man, who is the possessor of a large fortune, whoever he may be, can be sincerely f…"

"An enemy to everything that comes under the denomination of party, faction, and cabal, I have never expected any good…"

"So difficult is it to manage the irritable amour-propre of literary men, and such great care is necessary, in paying …"

"It is in the country that one learns to love and serve humanity; one only learns to despise it in cities."

"for the first time since the existence of the world, an author permits himself, by a single stroke of the pen, to mak…"

"I might have thrown myself entirely into the most lucrative path, and, instead of lowering my pen to copying, I might…"

"even if the sacrifices which are made to duty and virtue are painful to make, they are well repaid by the sweet recol…"

"There is no soul so vile, no heart so barbarous, that it is not susceptible of some kind of attachment."