Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. - John Ruskin

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.