Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.