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

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

Writing is busy idleness.