Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

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

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

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.

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.