Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

"Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution."

"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. . . ."

". . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense."