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.

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

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

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