When People Are Old Enough To Know

I Am Inclined To Think That One's Education Has Been In Vain If One Fails To Learn That Most Schoolmasters Are Idiots.

An Author Should Be Delighted, Not Annoyed When He Hears Himself Persistently Misquoted. He Could Receive No Higher Compliment. It Proves That The World Has Frequent And Urgent Need Of His Thoughts And Will Rather Change The Manner In Which He Expresses Them Than Do Without The Things Expressed.

When People Are Old Enough To Know Better They Are Old Enough To Do Worse.

Misquotation Is, In Fact, The Pride And Privilege Of The Learned. A Widely- Read Man Never Quotes Accurately, For The Rather Obvious Reason That He Has Read Too Widely.

Fate Stalks Us With Depressing Monotony From Womb To Tomb, And, When We Are Least Expecting It, Deals Us A Series Of Crushing Blows From Behind.