The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.