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.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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