That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.
Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and...
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of...
I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the modern world. For the tools of learning are the sa...
Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.