To miss the joy is to miss everything.

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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