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

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

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

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.