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

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

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.

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

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.