To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

What I learned from being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.