Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed the vote for women...

Weeping is like cleansing your soul. It's liberating and somber.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.