the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

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.

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.