One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.