You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.