to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.