The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.