Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.