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

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

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.