A wise traveler never despises his own country.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense