"The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills."

"I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy."

"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

"Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines."