The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

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.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

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