We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.