Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

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

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

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.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

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