"There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse."

“Many childrens writers dont have children of their own”

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”

“No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.”

“I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.”

“The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.”

“The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.”

“There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café”

Source : Joseph Warren Beach (1925). “Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles”

“With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.”