He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.