Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.