To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.