Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.