We are American at puberty. We die French.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.