[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.