Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

oh how television diminishes everything.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.