I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.