"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."

"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."

"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."

"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."

"Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits."