Essays

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles

Insist on yourself; never imitate

pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.[245] I seek the Vatican,[246] and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go

Traveling is a fool's paradise

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you

The power men possess to annoy men, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age