Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.