To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.