You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.