Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.