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

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

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

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

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

It may be those who do most, dream most.