How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

All wisdom is not new wisdom.

I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.