When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

"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.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.