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.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

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