The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.