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

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

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.

The mind's only perfect vassal.

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

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

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