“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
