Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

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

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.