She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.