One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

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.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.