A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Observation is an old man's memory.
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.