Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.