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.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

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

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

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

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.