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.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

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

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

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