He has an innate ability to hit people with the ball. It doesn't matter if he's in one far corner and you're in another, you are going to get hit.

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

Think about what they mean for the preservation of language, for preservation of text, for the ability of people to tell their stories. It's going to be phenomenal.

Push on - keep moving.

Always ding, dinging Dame Grundy into my ears - What will Mrs Grundy say? What will Mrs Grundy think?

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.