The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.