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.
From Hilaire Belloc
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.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
The grace of God is courtesy.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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 poeple in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
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