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

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Money confounds subordination.

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.