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

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.