Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.