Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.