There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in lov...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used t...o think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a wonderful, but neglected precision in these words. The old English noun "travel" (in the sense of a journey) was origin...ally the same word as "travail" (meaning "trouble," "work," or "torment").... Significantly, too, the word "tour" in "tourist" was derived by back-formation from the Latin "tornus," which in turn came from the Greek word for a tool describing a circle. The traveler, then was working at something; the tourist was a pleasure-seeker. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »