You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.