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Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morali...more

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Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide...more

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We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont ca...more

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It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

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We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our little emotions, and then this lot begins afresh. ...more

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Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people a...more

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Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to it. This, said the men of science, is no theory, no...more

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And in friendship and still more here, in this central business of love, accident rules it seems to me almost altogether. What personalities you will ...more

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What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.

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And she wanted to be free. It wasn't Mr. Brumley she wanted; he was but a means — if indeed he was a means — to an end. The person she wanted, the per...more

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He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded, — obsessed. He had been seeing her and himself a...more

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She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter of the man friend and nothing else in the world is...more