"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!