When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

So little done, so much to do.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Twilight ...Say, who you are !!The dusk before the nightOr the dawn before the light(Page 73)

It was men, not God, who had done those things...

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.