Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.