Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.