It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

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

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.