You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

The rich are always afraid.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.