There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.