For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

One spares old people just as one spares children.

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