Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.