All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.