After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.