First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.