In every parting there is an image of death.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.