Books are good enough in their own way but they are a poor substitute for life.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!

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.