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.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.