Jessica

“From the earliest days of the nation anyone with an intelligence equal to that of sparrows had realized that the peninsula ought logically to be united as one state, but historical accident had decreed that one portion be assigned to Maryland, whose citizens despised the Eastern Shore and considered it a backwater; one portion to the so-called state of Delaware, which never could find any reasonable justification for its existence; and the final portion to Virginia, which allowed its extreme southern fragment of the Eastern Shore to become the most pitiful orphan in America.”
― James A. Michener, Chesapeake

“A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.”
― Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence

“He judged people by himself - and they weren't that way. That was his one mistake. Hilter judges people by himself, too. He succeeds because they are that way.”
― Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, Berlijns dagboek 1938-1948

“Besides, what can be so delightful as the perpetual novelty—the exhaustless current of new ideas suggested by travelling? We read, to gather thought and knowledge; travelling is a book of the Creator’s own writing, and imparts sublimer wisdom than the printed words of man. Were I exiled perforce, I might repine, for the heart naturally yearns for home. But to adorn that home with recollections; to fly abroad from the hive, like the bee, and return laden with the sweets of travel—scenes, which haunt the eye—wild adventures, that enliven the imagination—knowledge, to enlighten and free the mind from clinging, deadening prejudices—a wider circle of sympathy with our fellow-creatures;—these are the uses of travel, for which I am convinced every one is the better and the happier.”
― Mary Shelley, Rambles in Germany and Italy: Volume II, European Travel in the 19th Century