Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

Writing a book is an adventure.