Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The essence of love is kindness.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.