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.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

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

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

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

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.