"The English are busy; they have no time to be polite."

"The inhabitants of warm countries are timid like old men; those of cold countries are courageous like young ones."

"The women of Europe have lost all their influence; they have none in the state, none in the church, none in the family."

"The greatest part of mankind are more capable of a long and tedious application, than of an intense and vigorous exertion."

"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."