No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt