A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

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

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.