Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.