The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.