Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.