War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

A yawn is a silent shout.