Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

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

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

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

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

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