Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - William Hazlitt

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…