When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.