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.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.