The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.