Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.