England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.