We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.