The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

What you are comes to you.