There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

We live as we dream - alone.