No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.