“One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.”

“To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.”

“I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have one's illusions destroyed - that is really almost more than one can bear.”

“dreams are madness, my dear. It's things that happen in the waking world, while one is asleep, that one would be glad to know the meaning of.”

“In the tropics one must beforeeverything keep calm.' . . .”

“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”

“In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.”