Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. - George Santayana

The difficulty, after having the experience to symbolize, lies only in having enough imagination to suspend it in a thought; and further to give this thought such verbal expression that others may be able to decipher it, and to be stirred by it as by a wind of suggestion sweeping the whole forest of their memories.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.