The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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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.