There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

You cannot hide the soul.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.