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

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.