Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.