A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

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.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.