One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

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

The solution of every problem is another problem