When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
Security will produce danger.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.