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

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.