A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. - Samuel Johnson

I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?
Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than in ourselves. He that reads and grows no wiser, seldom suspects his own deficiency; but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood?

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.