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

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.

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

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.