By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

...to win by one is enough.