To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.