The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.