“These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“When they married and gave in marriageThey danced at the County BallAnd some of them kept a carriageAnd the flood destroyed them all.”

“For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.”

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

“The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment.”

“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”