"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

"I am convinced that if all who are of the same opinion were to meet, the place of meeting would not be large enough to contain them."

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."

"It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."