Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth