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

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.