We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side