The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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.

Success is never final.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.