The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.