There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.