There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.
Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.