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

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.

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

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.