Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.