Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.