Alexander Woollcott Good Quotations

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.