If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. – William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt
It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield