The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.