No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.