The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.