A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.