Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.