In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Begone about your business.

Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Unconscious humor.