One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

If you can do it then why do it?