It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

History repeats itself.