“Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of h...” — Bernard Berenson Quote

“Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.”

“A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.”

“You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.”

“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”

“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.”

“It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away with it.”