Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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

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

Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

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

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.