If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

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

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.