The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

London is a roost for every bird.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.