An unjust punishment is never forgotten..

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

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention..

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..

More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite.….

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to di….

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing..

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different o….

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct..

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if th….

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible..

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

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 ….

I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the traged….

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

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon beco….

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….

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