I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

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

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.