Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.