A wise traveler never despises his own country.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.