I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.