You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.