The barbarian lives only in his tribe; the civilised man, in the exact degree in which he is civilised, lives with humanity.

Books are among the richest resources against narrowing local influences; they are the ripest expositions of the world-spirit.

To know the typical books of the race is to be in touch with those elements of thought and experience which are shared by men of all countries.

Without a knowledge of these books a man never really gets at the life of localities which are foreign to him; never really sees those historic places about which the traditions of civilisation have gathered.

Travel is robbed of half its educational value unless one carries with him a knowledge of that which he looks at for the first time with his own eyes.