when the coachman is driving rapidly over a rough place. You
should make all the accommodations to others, which you can
do consistently with your own convenience; for, after all,
the individuals are each like little nations; and as, in the
one case, the first duty is to your country, so in the other,
the first duty is to yourself.

Some surly creatures, upon entering a coach, wrap about their
persons a great coat of cloth, and about their minds a mantle
of silence, which are not thrown off during the whole
journey. This is doing more harm to themselves than to
others. You should make a point of conversing with an
appearance of entire freedom, though with real reserve, with
all those who are so disposed.

One purpose and pleasure of travelling is to gain
information, and to observe the various characters of
persons. You will be asked by others about the road you
passed over, and it will be awkward if you can give no
account of it. Converse, therefore, with all. Relate amusing
stories, chiefly of other countries, and even of other times,
so as not to offend any one. If engaged in discussion--and a
coach is almost the only place where discussion should _not_
be avoided--state facts and arguments rather than opinions.
Never answer impudent questions-and never ask them.

At the meals which occur during a journey, you see beautiful
exemplification of the _dictum_ of Hobbes, "that war is the
natural state of man." The entire scene is one of
unintermitted war of every person with every other person,