He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every Nation has something peculiar in its Manufactures, its Works of Genius, its Medicines, its Agriculture, its Customs, and its Policy. He only is a useful Traveller, who brings home something by which his country may be benefited; who procures some supply of Want, or some mitigation of Evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.