The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.