How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.