An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.