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

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

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

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

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.

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.