Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.