I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.