You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.