A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
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.