Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.