Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.