The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

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 told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.