The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.