No man is useless while he has a friend.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.