He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.