Youth is always an enemy to the old.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.