He travels the fastest who travels alone.

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.