Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.