All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.