Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.