There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.