The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun