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.

Money pads the edges of things.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.