One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.