The soul of adventure — quotations

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” (Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1)

“It is the mark of a free man not to live at another’s beck and call.” (Aristotle, Rhetoric 1367a30)

“One profits more by the mistakes one makes off one’s own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else’s advice.” (Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage)

“I try to tell my students … nothing is boring. Nothing is boring. If you’re bored, you’re boring.” (Camille Paglia)

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.” (Chicago architect Daniel Burnham)

More at my Quotations page.