The Exhaustion Of The Passions Is The

Laziness In Doing Stupid Things Can Be A Great Virtue.

When You Are Getting On In Years (but Not Ill, Of Course), You Get Very Sleepy At Times, And The Hours Seem To Pass Like Lazy Cattle Moving Across A Landscape.

I Dislike Organized Games, Swimming Pools, Fashionable Resorts, Night Clubs, Music In Restaurants, And Political Manifestoes; I Enjoy Driving From Coast To Coast, Good Food And Drink, A Few Friends, Dogs, The Theatre, Long Walks, Music And Free Conversation.

And I Believe That The Binomial Theorem And A Bach Fugue Are, In The Long Run, More Important Than All The Battles Of History.

We Believe That To Govern Perfectly It Is Necessary To Avoid Governing Too Much.