It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.