It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.
My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.
Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages. ' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!'. . . 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam. ' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade. ' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important. ' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.
Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders. . . The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful guardians of liberty? Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.