Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro - And what should they know of England who only England know?

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, ha…

There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions. Bu…

They [the Greeks] were the first Westerners; the spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.