A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Allegories drawn to great length will always break.
No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.