All his wishes centred in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

cabbage-beds would have been enough to tempt the lady, who only wanted to be going somewhere.

The distance is nothing if one has motive

Todos debemos procurar estar satisfechos allí donde nos encontremos, y más aún en nuestro propio hogar, que es donde más tiempo estamos obligados a permanecer.

There is always one thing a man can do, if he so chooses, and that is his duty.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.