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.

Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

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

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.