Every moment is travel - if understood.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.