It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.

The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."

We know too much and feel too little.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.