I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.