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

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.