of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!
Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.