The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

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.

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.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

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

Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

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.