...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.