I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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.

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.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.