And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.