A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

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

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.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

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

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.