Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.