Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.