Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
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.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.