Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.