What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

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

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.