Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.