Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.