... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

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

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.