“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Do nothing that is of no use.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

All warfare is based on deception.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.