We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

I love learning, but hate being taught.