If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.