Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

The miserable are sacred.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?