Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.