Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.