Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born