One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but sti….

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet ….

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving.

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as ….

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared..

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good..

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vi….

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becom….

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home..

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure..

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else..

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows..

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse t….

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which ….

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which th….

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech..

All our acts have sacramental possibilities..

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's….

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necess….