The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.