One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

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.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine.

Don’t live life, without an enthusiasm of existence.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

I'm not the one calling Trumpists the equivalent of a cult. The Drive-Bys, some of them do, as a means of not having to deal with you seriously.