... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

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

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

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.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

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.