You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.