You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.