From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

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.

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

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.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.