Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

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

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.