A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.