If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.