This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.