Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be diss...atisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency." In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great reposito...ries of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, w...hose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »