Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.