I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodre. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be hap…