Boredom is the most horrible of wolves..

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English..

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other..

For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If….

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land..

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and e….

When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland….

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea le….

Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. The….

From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been i….

All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen acco….

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people..

There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness..