And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

The end was contained in the beginning.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.