"Our earthly ball a peopled garden...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.”

“People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.”

“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”

“Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.”

“What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?”

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.”

“It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.”

“Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.”

“O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.”