I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.