I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

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.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.