Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.