Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.