“...a man within the breast...”

“The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.”

“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”

“Every man lives by exchanging.”

“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.”

“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”

“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”