God cannot save them from fools.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.