The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.