Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.