Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

In the twinkling of an eye I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!