“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.