The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.