If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.