Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind. We lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

The term socialism becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family, and individual freedom.

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, / It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes; / Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, / Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, / Attempted to Believe Matilda: / The effort very nearly killed her.

The Frog is justly sensitive to epithets like these. No animal will more repay a treatment kind and fair. At least so lonely people say who keep a frog (and, by the way,they are extremely rare).

Be kind and tender to the Frog and do not call him names.

A smell of burning fills the startled air / The electrician is no longer there!

If there is one portion of Europe which was made by the sea more than another, Portugal is that slice, that portion, that belt. Portugal was made by the atlantic.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.