Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

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.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.