I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

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.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

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.