Man's most serious activity is play.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.