Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

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.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Sometimes, all you need to do is pull back a little to protect your heart, not turn your back entirely.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms.

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.