The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

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

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.