If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.