They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

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.

Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.