Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.