Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.