“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”

“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”

“As soon as there is life there is danger.”

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”