The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

Find the journey's end in every step.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.