An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
There is no education like adversity.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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.