What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject