Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins.—N. P. Willis.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.—Johnson.
To see the world is to judge the judges.—Joubert.
The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles, and why should not other tourists do the same.—Haliburton.
Treason.—Treason pleases, but not the traitor.—Cervantes.
The man was noble; but with his last attempt he wiped it out; betrayed his country; and his name remains to the ensuing age abhorred.—Shakespeare.
Trifles.—A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.—Shakespeare.
We are not only pleased but turned by a feather. The history of a man is a calendar of straws. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said Pascal, in his brilliant way, Antony might have kept the world.—Willmott.
A drop of water is as powerful as a thunderbolt.—Huxley.
Riches may enable us to confer favors; but to confer them with propriety and with grace requires a something that riches cannot give: even trifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be trifles. The citizens of Megara offered the freedom of their city to Alexander; such an offer excited a smile in the countenance of him who had conquered the world; but he received this tribute of their respect with complacency on being informed that they had never offered it to any but to Hercules and himself.—Colton.