There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.