"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."