Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

His worried face falls away and is replaced with what can only be described as a glow--like someone who has a terrific secret and they're about to let you in on it.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.