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

Men can bear all things but good days.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

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.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

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