Society Created The Prison In Its Own

I Discovered That Human Nature Was Not, As I Had Always Supposed, A Fixed And Unalterable Entity, That Wars Are Not Caused By A Natural Urge In Men To Fight, That Ownership Of Land And Factories Is Not Necessarily The Natural Reward Of Greater Wisdom And Energy.

Picking Other People's Brains Is An Art Worth Cultivating.

It Is Somehow Reassuring To Discover That The Word Travel Is Derived From Travail, Denoting The Pains Of Childbirth.

A Thirteen-year-old Is A Kaleidoscope Of Different Personalities, If Not In Most Ways A Mere Figment Of Her Own Imagination. At That Age, What And Who You Are Depends Largely On What Book You Happen To Be Reading At The Moment.

Knowing Few Children Of My Age With Whom To Compare Notes, I Envied The Children Of Literature To Whom Interesting Things Were Always Happening.