To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.