A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.