He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme. - Samuel Johnson

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove
The pangs of guilty power and hapless love!
Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more;
Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before;
Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.