Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.