What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.