Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.