Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.