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 feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.