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.

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

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