'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.'

Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.