Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
