Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.