The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.