A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.