My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.