There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!