Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.