Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.