every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.