Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them…

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Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing...

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...