How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.