Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.