Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.