Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail — traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. – Dr.SunWolf, 2011 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one – in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. – Walter Bagehot
