The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.