Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it