Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

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

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.