Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

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.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.