Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker