The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

The machine yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time, never watches the foreman, never talks back

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.