“When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind”

“When they married and gave in marriageThey danced at the County BallAnd some of them kept a carriageAnd the flood destroyed them all.”

“When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.”

“Life is a veil, its paths are dark and roughOnly because we do not know enoughWhen Science has discovered something moreWe shall be happier than we were before.”

“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”