If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.