Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.