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.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.