The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
The world remains ever the same.
Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.