If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young