If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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