...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.