Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Life too near paralyses art.
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.