The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.