Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.