A man sees. A man hears. A man knows.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

When the raw, harsh liquor had cut the dust from his throat he looked up at a nearby

His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

"What is that big book?" said the little prince. "What are you doing?"

"I am a geographer," said the old gentleman.

"What is a geographer?" asked the little prince.

"A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts."

"That is very interesting," said the little prince. "Here at last is a man who has a real profession!"

Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline, intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves – with all these qualifications as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express purpose, I could have no hesitation in confiding the enterprise to him. To fill up the measure desired, he wanted nothing but a greater familiarity with the technical language of the natural sciences, and readiness in the astronomical observations necessary for the geography of his route. To acquire these he repaired immediately to Philadelphia, and placed himself under the tutorage of the distinguished professors of that place.

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Sir Lavaine did well and worshipfully;
He bore a knight