"If many a man did not feel himself in duty bound to repeat what is untrue merely because he once said it we should have had men of different calibre."

“Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.”

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”