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.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

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.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

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.