The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent,… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
