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. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over

I recommend you take care of the minutes: for hours take care of themselves

I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer.