The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.