He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every Nation has something peculiar in its Manufactures, its Works of Genius, its Medicines, its Agriculture, its Customs, and its Policy. He only is a useful Traveller, who brings home something by which his country may be benefited; who procures some supply of Want, or some mitigation of Evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.