"Descending from the Abbey, and skirting the little churchyard in the dusk, I stumbled upon a little half-hidden church, and entered. It was dark, irregularly spotted with candlelight for service, and unseen women were chanting a litany."

"Enchanted woods are rare. But I suspect that where they exist, and seem — so deep is their magic — to march nowhere on reality, they are most often within a stone's-throw of the dear homes of every day ; nor is it needful to travel very far afield in order to find them."

"The spectacle was born from the world's loss of unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss."