A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.
Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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.
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.
This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
What if – what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness – why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there – that, we may say, is created.
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness.