“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”

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

“You will find the Americans much as 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.”

“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”

“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”

“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”

“Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!”

“Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever.”

“I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.”

“Tradition has made women cowardly.”