The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.