No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

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

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

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.