For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move, to get down off this featherbed of civilisation and to find the globe granite underneath and strewn with cutting flints.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
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I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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