The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.