The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. 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.

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world

It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.