Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Business before pleasure.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.