There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY