the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

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