We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Work is a form of nervousness.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.