Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Love is only one of many passions.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

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.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.