The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!