“It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
Travel“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
Truth“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
Art“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”
Teacher“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
History“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
Friendship“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
Knowledge“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
Respect“The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
Power“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Faith“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
Nature“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
Death“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
Power“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
Food“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
Best“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
Friendship“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
Friendship“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”
Learning“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Education