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

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

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

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

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.

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