"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"Everyone is more or less mad on one point."

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."

"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."

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

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

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same."

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

"Gentlemen-Rankers out on the spree, / Damned from here to Eternity."

"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."

"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

"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."

"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."