Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

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

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.