The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

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

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.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.