The only certain freedom's in departure.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.