This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you it is yours now for ever.

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

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart...

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