Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

I am the Spirit that denies.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.