"When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead."

"Have you noticed anything strange about him? Strange? We humans insist on inhabiting a charnel ground - isn't that st…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"

"Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed."

"Even not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!"

"Physical inferiority is always stressed rather than relieved by a militaristic rule; so that it would not surprise me…"