To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.