Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree