Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

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

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