I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.