“Habit is second nature.”
“Dynasties have a natural life span.”
“The phenomena of human society are subject to laws.”
“Luxury corrupts both the state and the individual.”
“Commerce is the art of taking advantage of mutual needs.”
“Civilization is the goal of society; its corruption is the beginning of its end.”
“Government prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.”
“The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places.”
“The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem to demand time to disconnect.”
“The opposite of a vacation is not work; it's idleness.”
“Movement is a fantastic privilege—but there’s nothing so moving as stillness.”
“Home is not where you are born; it is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
“In an age of speed, nothing is more exhilarating than going slow.”
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.”
“There are things we can't choose, but we can choose how we love them.”
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
“We are formed by what we desire.”
“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”