I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.