I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.