The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
Philosophy is for the few.
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.