“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

One must wait till it comes.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I always take time to read, and try to read at least one book per week!

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.