There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.