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.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

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

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.