This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

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

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.