There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.