Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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.