You can cover a great deal of country in books.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.