The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.