A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

The more intelligent, the less sane

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.