Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

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

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

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

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.