beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.
When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.