The happy life is thought to be one of excellence, now an excellent life requires exertion and does

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence, now an excellent life requires exertion and does not consist in amusement.

Author: Aristotle

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

The actuality of thought is life.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.