I do not in any way wish to disparage a college education; no doubt men who have been trained in a university start in life with better prospects and with a greater chance of success, but those men who have not had such advantages have doubtless done much to make their country great and prosperous, and they ought to be recognized as great men.
The general desire of the American people to travel abroad is one of their good traits.

People who never leave their homes cannot know much.

A person may become well-informed by reading, but his practical knowledge cannot be compared with that of a person who has travelled.
We Chinese are great sinners in this regard.

A Chinese maxim says, "It is dangerous to ride on horseback or to go on a voyage": hence until very recently we had a horror of going abroad.

A person who remains all his life in his own town is generally narrow-minded, self-opinioned, and selfish.