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

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

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

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

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.