Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

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

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.