marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.