The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

If you find something you really love, you will never work again.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.