“Open your mind before your mouth”

“Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.”

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”

“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”

“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.”

“Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”