Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.

It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

You must marry, or your life will be wasted. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you...When I think what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love— Marry him; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissue with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Like all gossip—it's merely one of those half-alive things that try to crowd out real life.