"One always begins to forgive a place..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.”

“A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.”

“Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.”

“I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.”

“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”

“After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.”

“A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

“I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.”