Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

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