If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.