Children need models rather than critics.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.