First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.