Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.