As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.... That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode.