Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

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

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.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.