Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.