A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.