Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

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.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.