It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.