I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
But authors before they write should read.
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.