Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

The instinct of the people is right.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.