You must look at facts, because they look at you.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

When you're going through hell - just keep on going!

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.