...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.