I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

There are no healing agents.

Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

The anger of lovers renews their love.

the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.