Sublime

In short, he is simply a sane man, and of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

“I beg your pardon, for a number of beautiful and sacred thoughts, in which you were generally classified as a fool.

Better men than I have split their trousers.

Charles Dickens

a thirst for some loyalty that shall unify life,

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.

that grand and very Christian quality of the man who laughs at himself.

Almost any traveller could select out of the countless things that he has looked at the few things that he has seen.