A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.