Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.