I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

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

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened