Friendship takes time.
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.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.