Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.