... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.