Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.