In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

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

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

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

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.