Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.