He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.