Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.