I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

The world is full of places to which I want to return

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.