In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.