“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are rig...”

“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”

“For human intercourse, as soon as we look at it for its own sake and not as a social adjunct, is seen to be haunted by a spectre. We cannot understand each other, except in a rough and ready...”

“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.”