When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

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

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

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

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.