To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

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.

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

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.