“There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.”

“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.”

“The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.”

“I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time. ”

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

“Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.”

“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.”