There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.