Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.