The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Friendship takes time.
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.