The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

One should not run on a new road.

We generally get the evil we expect.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

A good message will always find a messenger.