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.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

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

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.