To reach a port we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drif

To reach a port we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.