We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.