It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.