Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

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

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.