Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.