The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.