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

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

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

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

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