I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.