Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.