Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.