It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.