Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.