Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.