Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

There nearly always is a method in madness.