What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!