There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.