A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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.