If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.