Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth. A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility. A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it. A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead. A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls. A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks. A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)