Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!