Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794
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I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbI have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838