For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

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.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.