Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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?