For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.