Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.