It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.