Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.