I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.