To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.