Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.