But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

What a comfort is friendship in this world.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.