When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.