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.

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.

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

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

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

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

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