"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower."

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

"Whenever you come to a 'Y' in the road always remember that you have a third choice of path: And that is right down the middle, where no one has gone before."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.'"

"Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance."

"The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss."

"Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."

"If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief."

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."

"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."

"The glass of fashion and the mould of form"