Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Ending is better than mending.

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.