Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.