The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.