The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.