The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

Ending is better than mending.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Every man's memory is his private literature.