Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.