It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.