The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

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.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

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.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.