It is very natural to overlook that which is near home, and as it were within our reach, especially when the mind looks forward, on discoveries which… - Georg Forster

It is the natural fault of young people to think too well of mankind [...].

[...] each vulgar opinion, proved to be erroneous, is an approximation to truth [...].

The degree of pleasure which may result from the perusal of a work, depends not only upon the variety of the subject, but likewise upon the purity and graces of style. We must resign all pretensions to taste and sentiment, if we did not prefer a well-told tale to a lame and tedious narration. Of late, however, the just esteem in which an elegant diction is held, has been so far abused, that authors, relying on the fluency of their language, have paid no attention to the matter which they proposed, but deceived the public with a dry and uninstructive performance.