... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

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