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

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.