Progress is the mother of all problems.

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.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.