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.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

The fearless make their own way.

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.