Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.