if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.