Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.