In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

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.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.