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

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.