One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.