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.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.