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.

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.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.