Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.