O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

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.

Vision is seeing the invisible.