Måske elsker mange katten, fordi den er det eneste eksempel på, at man kan ånde i menneskets nærhed uden at blie dets slave, det er måske også derfor mange hader den.
Når beslutningen en gang er truffet, skal man lukke ørene for selv det bedste modargument. Det er tegn på en stærk karakter. Altså en situationsbestemt vilje til dumhed.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.