Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.