You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

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.

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

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

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.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.