A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men

Scientific knowledge, even in the most modest persons, has mingled with it a something which partakes of insolence. Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?