Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping,….

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion..

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life..

I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anythin….

Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what ….

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually t….

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know..

There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket wen….

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks..

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries..

there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong e….

Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The hum….

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail..

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable..

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shr….