Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!