Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
– Muriel Spark
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
– Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
– Muriel Spark
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.