Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.