Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.