Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race."

Reason is life's sole arbiter.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
From none but self expect applause:
He noblest lives and noblest dies
Who makes and keeps his self-made laws."