“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels