“Think of thyself as a stranger and traveler on the earth, to whom none of the many affairs of this world belong and who has no permanent township on the globe.”

“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”

“The world has changed.I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.”

“The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.”

“If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”