I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Violence is sometimes a duty.