Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.