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

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.