The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

Writing is an adventure.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.