I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.