[Tolerance] is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novel…

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Most of us will be eclectics to this side or that according to our temperament. The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise i…