Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

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

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.

To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

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

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.