What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.