Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.