Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.