"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things."

"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"