Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.