Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.