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.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

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

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.