To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.