Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.