I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.