"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny."

"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."

"Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."

"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah."

"It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"Evil and good are God's right hand and left."

"Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers."