My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.