It's all been very interesting.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.