A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Travel teaches toleration.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient