All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

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

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

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.