Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

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.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.