I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

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