Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

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

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

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.

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.