The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.