Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.