There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.