Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.