What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect, ” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He's given himself a lot of opportunities through that.

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.