It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

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

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.