A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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 civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ''give them up,'' for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.