“The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you”

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

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“One life is an absurdly small allowance.”

“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.”

“The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.”

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”