The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.