The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.