Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

I keep six honest serving men.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.